Warning: This article contains spoilers fromHouse of the Dragonepisode 4.
“It was something we talked about over seven months.
It was one of the first things I was very keen to talk about,” Frankel says.
Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock) seduces Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel).Ollie
Anyone who’s ever had sex will tell you sex ain’t that beautiful.
It isn’t some picturesque, amazing thing.
It’s awkward, especially when you are young.
She then welcomes him into her bed.
He praises the drama for “highlighting the realities of sex.”
But particularly me, Clare, and Milly going, ‘How do we make this human?'"
Rhaenyra and Criston’s scene had to be different than Rhaenyra and Daemon’s moment in the brothel.
Frankel’s goal was to lean into the internal struggle of Criston in this moment.
“Knights would have squires, and squires would take off their armor.
For even a world-quality squire, you’ve got 10 minutes to get the armor off.
Let’s say five, maybe at best.
There’s no way Rhaneyra and Cole are gonna take that armor off in 10 seconds.
So I was like, ‘Well, you have to have that in.
It’s important that that’s what it is.
It’s important that it’s a struggle to get the armor off.’
How do we get the buckle off?
How do we get the boots off?
